Summer: "Dad…the line from Macbeth is 'Lay on, MacDuff', not 'Lead on…' You're an English teacher? That's a sad comment on the American education system."
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Ugh, just look at him there in panel one, sitting there like King Douche of Douchelandia. And that scribbly hatchet-beard in panel two, complete with smirk…how can anyone NOT want to kill him? What a dick.
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I like to think he was actually reading Macbeth in panel one, and still got it wrong.
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TomBat is truly the master draftsman. With just a single deft line to define a punchable smirk, even a first-time reader of the strip can tell what an absolute douche canoe Les is. Summer, don't complain – this is what comes of "following your heart."
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Are we sure he's misquoting MacBeth? "Lead on MacDuff(el)" might very well be a well-known quote from the famous Livingston…
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Summer: "James wants us to take out bags over to the land rovers."
Les: "Oh, good. I was getting so bored, reading the Grey Book o' Greyness. By the way, do you like how I got the orange towel to levitate in a field of ziptone energy?"
Summer: "Um, yeah, that's great, dad."
Les: "Man, I can't wait to glory in how stupid everyone who isn't me is! Did you tell everyone that I'm an English teacher, a best-selling author, AND a Hollywood Auteur, James? That means I know lots of things that you don't!"
Summer: "Don't make me slap the Westview out of you, Dad."
James: "I'd have warned the others about him, but so far I'm unsure if there is anyone else besides me, at least two cooks, that baboon-hating geezer, and his sacrificial kitten! Gee, you'd think establishing that would be something to be done at the beginning. Oh, well…"
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I'd give anything to hear James's exact warning to the others: "I know you've paid a lot of money to make this expedition to Kilimanjaro, but I must warn you that we're traveling with a giant prick today." Of course, he probably used a mystical African phrase in place of "giant prick"… something like "major asshole."
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Mac…-er, The Scottish Play, as all Shakespeare aficionados know, is notoriously unlucky–so much so that any invocation of it is certain to bring misfortune upon the speaker. Hopefully this extends to terrible puns.
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I'm not a regular reader of Mary Worth, but it's interesting to note that there currently is a daughter-travels-abroad-with-embarassing-father arc going on over there as well!
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Anything short of Less dying on this trip will be unsatisfying.
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Les wins a trip to Kilimanjaro in a raffle that saved Summer's Senior Season. After graduation, Summer strong-arms Les into using the trip and taking her along. Les trains for a few days with his obese pal Bull. Funky buys Les socks. Cayla stands around in the background. They go to the airport and leave. Then Funky buys a car and struggles with what to name it for some reason. Les flies back in from Africa (presumably) to (annoyingly) chime in about the car then (presumably) flies back. Les and Summer take a bumpy ride to base camp. Some moron gets his wallet stolen by a monkey and discovers he's accidentally packed one of his cats, who apparently breed all over his house for some reason. Les makes a ton of annoying, witless, unfunny "jokes" and irritates everyone in his radius while his daughter stands there acting all poorly-drawn and superior to everyone else.
Now, if I had posted that a few months ago as a prediction re: the Kilimanjaro arc, I think it's safe to say the general reaction here would have been, "duh, now that's just stupid and not even remotely funny, man. Pick up your game, you'll never get COTW with incoherent, unfunny drivel like that". Yet, remarkably enough, the person responsible for that sad-sack-sorry storyline above is a former Pulitzer nominee. Just astonishing.
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Les only has three settings – Whine, Mope and Smirk. Which one will get him thrown from the summit? Oh, who cares, as long as he's thrown?
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Les is such a prick, he'll probably throw the cat off the summit just to see if they really do land on their feet.
I also smell a gym rope-climbing flashback as Les nears that summit.
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"I've already warned the others about him. There's a particular spot along the trail where we're all planning on beating the shit out of him with our walking sticks. It's a nice spot by a ravine where we can ditch his broken body without risking anyone ever finding him."
Summer (Bart Scott-esque): CAN'T WAIT.
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@Jeffcoat, I like to think that James got a bit more Lovecraftian…
"Folks, you've heard of Nyarlathotep? Hastur? Cthulhu? Maybe you've read a bit of Lovecraft, or Frank Belknap Long, or Clark Ashton Smith? Especially the bit about eyes. Ooo, and about how certain faces got bit off in the dark…in the night. Well, there are certain rituals, and well, you might want to keep your tents closed. Before you ask, those horrible noises are just part of Africa." Looks around at the bearers. "Amirite, guys?"
Vague mutterings and eye-flickings. "You are the MAN, James!"
"Indeed I am…indeed I am."
On the other hand, I personally hate all the characters in this comic, so in a very real way I don't care no matter what. I guess that means I've grown up!
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So Les smirks even while reading? That's called committing to the bit!
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What a coincidence.
"Anything short of Les dying
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Charles There's a particular spot along the trail where we're all planning on beating the shit out of him with our walking sticks. It's a nice spot by a ravine where we can ditch his broken body without risking anyone ever finding him."
Speaking of dying alone in an unmarked grave, is Kilimanjaro littered with dead bodies like Mount Everest is? That should provide several days of painful puns, unless Les see's lisa's face in every frozen corpse.
Of course, with over 40 porters who probably aren't allowed to make the final trek to the summit, there are plenty of people to take care of such clutter as to not ruin the experience for the paying customer.
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Apparently, at least according to the SoSF logo this week, Summer must offend some African gods or something during this trip. Enough so that she gets turned into a ventriloquist's dummy.
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It's pretty lame so far but I guess the Sunday strip will really tell whether we're in for any real artistic effort with this arc. When you think of a trip to Kilimanjaro you imagine beautiful vistas, breathtaking scenery, exotic animals and interesting traveling companions. Instead we have a GIS airport, jeeps, shrubbery, a putative baboon obscured by shrubbery, a kitten, and a state-fair level caricature of a NJ businessman. This is what's called playing to your strengths, or just leaving out anything you're incapable of drawing.
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